Sex is for reproduction, even though humans do it for many different reasons than that. In the midst of all the battles over who is going to deal with any child that is the result of any given sex act, the child is almost an after thought, whether she or he is wanted or not. Children are the future of our race, and they have been reduced to an afterthought for thousands of years now. If they are nurtured or not is not the business of society, but is considered to be the business of their mother alone. This has produced a profoundly dysfunctional relationship between sex and the future of our race in which the greater proportion of children are undernourished, under nurtured, and lurch through a life in which the fathers take all and the mothers and the future of our race are afterthoughts. How did we get this divorced from reality?